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Japanese Kwangtung Army attacked Chinese troops in Manchuria in an event commonly known as the Manchurian Incident This was an attempt by the Japanese Empire to gain control over the whole province to later control all of Asia. This proved to be one of the causes of World War 2
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On this day in 1933, President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader or fuhrer of the National Socialist German Workers Party as chancellor of Germany.
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Hitler wanted all German speaking nations in Europe to be a part of Germany. He desided to reunie Germany with its original country Astria. Under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles.
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Kristallnacht is often referred to as the Night of Broken Glass.
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1.5 million German troops invade Poland all along its border with German territory. The German Luftwaffe bombed Polish airfields, and German warships and U-boats attacked Polish naval forces in the Baltic Sea
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The advancing German Army trapped the British and French armies on the beaches around Dunkirk. 330,000 men were trapped here and they were a sitting target for the Germans.
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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military attack from Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The attack was intended as a preventive action in order to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions for a couple of months.
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U.S. General Edward P. King surrendered to Japanese General Masaharu Homma. At that point 75,000 soldiers became Prisoners of War: about 12,000 Americans and 63,000 Filipinos. What followed was one of the worst times in U.S. warfare.
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The Battle of Midway effectively destroyed Japan’s naval strength when the U.S. destroyed four of there aircraft carriers. Japan’s navy never recovered from its mauling at Midway.
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American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50 mile stretch of the coast of France’s Normandy region. The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history and required extensive planning
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It was the biggest and bloodiest single battle American soldiers ever fought. Over 80,000 Americans were killed, maimed, or captured
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The Yalta Conference took place in a Russian resort town, during World War Two. At Yalta, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin made important decisions regarding the future progress of the war and the postwar world.
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Victory in Europe Day was the public holiday to mark the date when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, this ended the war in Europe.
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The United States used a massive, atomic weapon against Hiroshima, Japan. This atomic bomb, was 20,000 tons of TNT it flattened the city and killing over 10,000 people. While Japan was still trying to comprehend this devastation three days later, the United States struck.
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Victory over Japan day is a name chosen for the day on which Japan surrendered,
